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MURDER ON THE MENU:
Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery
Edited with an introduction by Peter Haining. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, (1992). First American edition, first printing. "First Carroll & Graf edition 1992" statement to the copyright page, and $21.00 price to the jacket flap. The superior authors selected for this anthology include Rex Stout, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Gaston Leroux, Robert Bloch, Georges Simenon, Damon Runyon, Roger Zelazny, P.D. James, and more. Faint smudge to the lower spine end, just a hint of waviness to the pages, else about near fine in autumn-yellow linen over black boards with red-metallic embossed titles to the spine, yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket with creepy food skull collage art by Wilma Ervin; original printed $21.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 415 pages. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS! |